Composition for preserving plants.



NITE STATES PATENT Darren.

JAMES M. HOWARD, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

COMPOSITION FOR PRESERVING PLANTS,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent 12's. 689,807, dated December- 19071. Application filed February 8, 1901. Serial No- 46,469. (No speciiiiena) To all whom, it may concern: What I claim, and desire to secure by Let- I Be it known that I, JAMES M. HOWARD, a ters Patent of the United States, is citizen of the United States, residing at Bos- 1. A composition of matter for preserving ton, in the county of Suiiolk and State of Masnatural and'artificial plants,consisting of gumf V y 5 sachusetts, have invented new and useful Imtragacanth, pistachio, and eau-de-cologne'.

provements in Compositions for Preserving 2. The herein -described composition of i Plants, of which the following is a specifica matter for preserving natural and artificial or tion. plants,consistin g of gum-tragacanth dissolved 5 This invention relates to a new and useful in Water, pistachio and eau-de-cologne.

1o composition ofmatter to be used as a preserv- 3. The he: cin described composition of ative for natural and artificial plants. matter for preserving natural and artificial My composition consists of about one ounce plants, consisting of one ounce of gum-tragaofgum-tragacanth issolved in about half a canth dissolved in a half-gallon of water, a gallon of water. With this solution I mix teaspoonful of pistachio and a teaspoonful of o r 5 about a teaspoonful of pistachio and a teaeau-de-cologne, substantially as herein de-} a spoonful of eau-de-cologne. The above inscribed and for the purpose specified. 1'

gredients are thoroughly stirred and inter- In testimony whereof I have hereunto set mixed, after which the composition is ready my hand in presence of two subscribing Witf i for use. nesses. 20 In using the composition I apply it with a JAMES M.1-IOWARD. v Wet sponge to the leaves of the'natural or ar- Witnesses: tificial plants, by which such leaves are pre- ALBAN ANDREN, served. CHARLES E. MAXWELL. 

